#fractures atla

[evienyx]

The most painful part of rewriting Fractures is having to read what was written originally lmao.

The most enjoyable part of rewriting Fractures is reading the new stuff instead. Oh, I cannot WAIT to finish it so that you all can see. All this work will be worth it, I swear.

[bitch-with-a-spoon]

just watched evie almost cry because a spider was inside the car. this is your god??

[evienyx]

Rewrite!Zuko is angry. That is the thing that I have come to know the most about him. He is still kind, and he is desperate for peace, but he has been hurt, and he is angry.

All things considered, I think he deserves to be.

[evienyx]

Is it a good idea for Iroh to learn Lu Ten is alive? He’s going to have an actual heart attack and idk if he can survive that at his age…

Can you imagine what a wild plot point that would be? A bunch of build-up just to unceremoniously kill Iroh off by shock-induced heart attack.

Lu Ten: Dad, I'm alive! It's been so many years and your entire life was fundamentally altered by my death, but finally we are in a position where I can reveal this to you! Also you have grandchildren.

Iroh:

Lu Ten: ...Dad?

Two days later, at a Fire Nation funeral

Aang: Iroh was a great firebending teacher, and an even better man.

Zuko: Unfortunately, he was also old as hell, so one shock to the heart and now he's dead. He is survived by his dead son, and his two grandchildren that he didn't know existed. RIP King.

[evienyx]

Will you be continuing the fractured series?

Yes. I am working on it actively. All the work for it is just BTS stuff, I fear, so it looks like I'm doing nothing lol. It'll come back eventually, I swear.

[evienyx]

I’ve been meaning to read fractures for aaages but should I wait now until you’ve finished the rewrite? :)

I also wanna reread so goes the moon soon I think it’s my favourite atla fic it’s so cool…..

I mean, in my opinion the rewrite is going to be drastically better lol. Especially the earlier stuff in Fractures is not indicative of my writing quality now because it's literally like almost seven years old.

On the other hand, I don't know how long the Fractures Rewrite is going to take. I mean, I'm really hitting a stride with it at the moment, but who knows if that will last you know? The original version of Fractures will still be readable once the Rewrite is done though.

Fully your choice lol. In an ideal world, I continue on my pace of about a chapter worth of work per day and it's done within a month. I have long thought this world to not be ideal, though.

[evienyx]

hey out of curiosity is your burst of motivation for the fractures rewrite directly correlated with the new ATLA movie releasing next week ? if you watched it already due to the unfortunate leak please no spoilers

That's actually a happy accident! No, the burst of motivation actually comes from me finding out a couple of weeks ago that one of my best friends has never seen any of ATLA. We hang out every week and make our way through shows that she hasn't seen (just finished Steven Universe and planned on doing Gravity Falls next until I learned about this) but I had just presumed she'd seen ATLA, because "well of course she has, she's my friend"

I learned that she hadn't however (literally didn't even know anything about it either. I'm still shocked) and was over-the-moon at the prospect of being able to introduce this show to her. When we last hung out yesterday, we ended after watching 'Appa's Lost Days' (which oof there is a reason I don't rewatch that episode often).

It'll be at least another two weeks for us to finish ATLA, and then we'll also be watching LoK, as well as the movie (which I am going to save because I did not watch the leaks and I want to experience a new ATLA thing with her 'cause this is a kinda rare chance). But yeah, it was that that gave me the actual motivation lol. Not that I'm complaining.

[evienyx]

Working on the Fractures Rewrite today and man I love this rewritten version of Fractures-Zuko so much.

That is not to say that I do not like Original Fractures-Zuko, or that they are drastically different from one another, but there is something about the new, fresh characterization, the reclaiming of personhood and the ability to choose for oneself, and kindness that ever-endures not because of opposition but in spite of it, that really gets me going.

It's not easy to go from one extreme to another, and I want this rewrite to push that more than before. For a while, Zuko will still be thinking as if he's in the cell, because of course he will be. That's all he's known for so long. Even out of it, why would things be any different?

For example, here's a section I was just cleaning up in Chapter 2 of the rewrite, when Zuko's at the coronation ball:

"He swallowed. His throat was dry, and his skin tingled, and his blood might have been as raw as it was in the cell. “I have to leave,” he said. It was silly to say such a thing. Zuko had whispered the same words into unfeeling stones and cold, damp air, and all he had gotten in return was another day wondering how his father managed to carve out a piece of the Hells just for him. It was a waste of breath, to speak that which would never change a thing."

I'm having so much fun.

Original Fractures-Zuko will always have a place in my heart, just as he will always have a place in all of your hearts, I'm sure, but I hope beyond hope that you all come to love Rewritten Fractures-Zuko as much as I do, because I'm pouring my soul into him, and that's exactly what I'm getting back.